Second Announcement: VILD - Visual Studies and Learning Design - AAU CPH

ViLD Research atelier: An open lecture series on the visual’ potential for knowledge generation 2017:

Why do we need research in visualizations in Society?
This series of open lectures address this question in concordance with visualizations and visual knowing from different perspectives. We have invited international top researchers to share their expertise addressing the overall question of visual’s potential for knowledge generation and the functions of visualizations in society

The presentation introduces Peirce's conception of diagrams as tools for reasoning and discusses visual diagrams as well as diagrammatic aspects of visual representations in general.

Frederik Stjernfelt is a Professor at the Dept. for Communication, Aalborg University. His research interests cover cognitive semiotics, philosophy of science, history of ideas, theory of literature, political philosophy which he combines with an interest in the visual and in arts.